Michelle and Marion: True Love? | Mr. Teachbad

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Michelle and Marion: True Love?

by teachbad

’m like, ‘You know what? I don’t give a crap.’ Don’t get me wrong. Cre­ativ­ity is good and what­ever. But if the chil­dren don’t know how to read, I don’t care how cre­ative you are. You’re not doing your job.

–Founder/CEO of Stu­dents First and for­mer DC Schools Chan­cel­lor Michelle Rhee on teach­ers, Time Mag­a­zine cover story, Novem­ber 8, 2008.

I don’t know what it is about young boys that they love to throw rocks. It hap­pens more in low-income communities…where there are a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of young peo­ple who are home after school and don’t have recre­ation facilities.

–For­mer Mayor, con­victed felon and cur­rent Ward 8 DC Coun­cil­man Mar­ion Barry on pos­si­ble ser­vice cuts due to fre­quent attacks on city buses in his ward, Wash­ing­ton Post, Octo­ber 28, 2012.

By most accounts, Mar­ion Barry and Michelle Rhee can’t stand each other and dis­agree on almost every­thing. Yet